The voting for the Brodies is off to an excellent start, with tons of votes coming in from the exmo subreddit and other places!! If you’ve been nominated and would like to win, you may want to send your fans here. And whether you’re in the running or not, please…
Category: Sunday in Outer Blogness
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Fun with beliefs Edition!!
The last call for Brodies nominations went up yesterday — and I’d like to especially call your attention to the categories that are light on nominations. If you can think of a work from 2013 that deserves recognition in one of those categories, it may make the difference as to…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Countdown to awards edition!!!
Folks, you just have a few more days to vote for X-Mormon of the Year!!! Also, we’re getting tons of great nominations for the Brodie Awards!!! This week I plan to review all of my SiOB posts from 2013 to select all of my nominations, and I will have the…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Gimme some truth edition!
Folks, the Brodies nominations are now open!! Nominate your favorite bloggers and other content providers, and nominate your own best work! (Also, get in your last-minute X-Mormon OTY nominations.) And remember, we’re not the only ones wrapping up 2013: Ziff did his annual round-up of funny comments from the Bloggernacle,…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Happy 2014 Edition!
Another year over, and a new one just begun! Naturally, folks are wrapping up the holidays, taking a look at what they’ve done over the past year, and planning for the future with goals! In that vein, we’ll be voting this week on the William Law X-Mormon of the Year…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Gay Polygamy Edition!
What an exciting two weeks it’s been!! But before digging into the links, I’d like to remind everyone that 2013 is drawing to a close, which means that it is awards time!! On New Years Day I plan to open the nominations for the William Law X-Mormon of the Year…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Who’s driving this train? edition!
True to his name, Profet anticipated this weeks hot topic in his piece highlighted last week!! In a nutshell: The CoJCoL-dS posted an article about race on its official website, and everybody is super-happy to learn that racist doctrines (like curses or restrictions based on skin color) aren’t LDS doctrines…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Family Christmas Survival Edition!
Those Christmas family gatherings can bring priceless joy, but can sometimes also involve treading in dangerous waters. Some have boundary problems deciding what to say (for example the first comment here is fascinating, but perhaps wouldn’t be helpful in some family Christmas Eves…), and some have still-open wounds. And even…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Happy Thanksgivukkah Edition!
In a surprise move, the first day of Hanukkah fell on Thanksgiving this year! The Highchair Travelers provided some ideas on how to celebrate Hanukkah — and don’t forget to read the Hannukah story from the Bible! I assume you already all know how to celebrate Thanksgiving: You think about…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Doctrinal Jello Edition!
I learned an interesting thing this past week in the comments of Reddit: Apparently the General Authorities of the CoJCoL-dS are discouraged from keeping journals. Why? Well maybe this tale of one of Joseph Smith’s revelations getting edited before canonization may shed some light on it. In other news of…